"I always knew from that moment, from..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.
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More on Libraries
“This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.”
“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”
More on Education
“If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.”